Harry Potter was such a crucial part of my childhood and teen years. I cried when Dumbledore died. I read several of the books over a dozen times, and did an annual reread of the whole series for awhile.

I'm not trans but that TERF cunt will never see another cent or good word from me. I spit on her name as she spit on my childhood. Solidarity, friend.

Yeah I can only separate art from artist when the artist isn't actively contributing to make the world shitty.

Some chunk of that is from counter-boycotters and anti-trans NGOs (allegedly even some GONGOs like citizengo), who bought up a lot, then dumped them onto G2A, gifted them for cheap, etc.

It's really simple: don't buy it but pirate it and enjoy it anyway. As the game itself is pretty solid for what it is, just works and does not sell addons and has no mtx-shop, which really baffled me.

I don't like her stupid ass and can't stand her silly propaganda. I don't even like harry Potter at all, yet still enjoyed my time in the game. Like i highly dislike star wars, yet cherished the Kotor games very much.

I usually strip the art from the artist. And in those cases I won't purchase but download. Me not playing it does absolutely nothing, but me not buying it does a microscopic tiny fraction.

And don't forget that most people just don't know And/or don't care. Not everyone buying it or loving potter is some backwards yokel. Ignorance can be a bliss.

You will be surprised to know that you don't agree on much of anything with most people.

Why tf do we need to investigate every damn niche of a creator's mind before deciding to buy?

Idgaf he's a bigot, a cow or a racist. If I like x thing that was made, and them being a bigot, cow or racist does not impact the product I'm buying, then I'm buying it.

Every day we use products that were made under the control of CEO's that would shit on us rather than shake our hands, that have ruined so many lives you can't count them because it's probably "illegal" since they sleep with everyone in power, but somehow we draw the line at bigotry.

If you don't like supporting bad people you better move in a forest and start raising some chickens because almost everything we buy supports some form of moronity that we can't even comprehend. That one product you don't buy won't make a sliver of difference.

You not buying it is whatever, but expecting others not to is really pretentious.

I guess you don't care about a lot of the other categories either.

• Rank 1, 8, 11, 14, 15, 16 are developed/published by a patent troll that stifles the whole games industry with frivolous patent suits and milks their audience dry while investing hardly anything into their games.
• Rank 5 and 6 are published by a corporation widely known for their leadership being extremely misogynistic and exploitative.
• Rank 17 is published by a corporation that's known for being extremely exploitative.

Btw, most of the corporations on the list donated to Trump, spy at their customers, use anti-competitive tactics, overwork and exploit their developers, employ psychologists to squeeze as much money out of vulnerable customers (e.g. those with psychological issues) and so on and so on.

And you apparently don't care about any of that. The only thing you care about is that a game that actually includes a trans character is based upon a 20-30yo book series that contains no anti-trans content, but was written by an author who later went on to post some anti-trans garbage years after the series was done and dusted.

Tbh, that's concerning, that you prefer games that directly benefit a transphobe regime over games that are remotely related to a transphobe influencer.

I wonder how many of those are the free version that you can only play when playing with someone who has the paid version

i’m wondering if the boycott had adverse effects and promoted the game in more gamer-centric spaces that otherwise wouldn’t have cared that much

obviously it’s a harry potter game, it was always gonna sell well. but 2nd best selling game of the last 5 years??? ouch

I suspect these are the best selling games which released between 2020 and 2025. For instance, Breath of the Wild has sold about 33 million copies, over 10 million more than Tears of the Kingdom but was released in 2017.

I think the reason it's sold so many copies is because it's been on perpetual sale everywhere. People were majorly against buying it and that dampened some people's interest initially but when the game is $5, a lot of people will buy it just because it's cheap.

I haven't bought a single one of these. I've played It Takes Two with my brother over Parsec though. Where can I collect my hipster certificate?

You got me like oooOOOoooo!!!!